Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has taken 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. Eisenhower on a course in Maryland outside of the U.S. capital. News reports described the game as a "triumph for diplomacy."