In June 1957, Prime Minister Kishi Nobusuke played golf with President Eisenhower at the Burning Tree club in Bethesda. On January 19, 2020, the sixtieth anniversary of the signing of the security treaty, his grandson, Prime Minister Abe Shinzō, spoke of “the friendship that Eisenhower and Kishi cultivated at Burning Tree.”
In the same speech, Abe said that Kishi was the first Japanese prime minister to play golf with an American president. He added that he himself had played golf with President Trump four times, and that the scores were to be kept a state secret.