Wooing Trump With Golf

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is taking a page from his grandfather’s playbook in using golf to form ties with an American leader.

In talks with Donald Trump in New York on Thursday, Abe presented the real estate mogul with a golf club (Japanese media said it was a driver).

Trump gave Abe a golf shirt in return.

In 1957, then Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi — Abe’s grandfather and political role model — played a round of golf with President Dwight D.

Trump is affiliated with 17 golf properties worldwide, with the golf division of Trump Organization Inc.

Kishi’s round of golf with Eisenhower, popularly known as “Ike,” took place three years before the Japanese leader signed a security treaty with the U.S.