Trump and golf - striking balls and deals over 18 holes

For some US presidents, golf was a break from work - but for Trump, visiting Scotland this weekend, it is anything but.

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"I slapped him on the shoulder and joked with him, 'I got you today, old man,'" Mulvaney told the BBC. "He looked at me, half smiled, half-sneered and just laughed."

The president birdied two of the next three holes and beat Mulvaney by two.

Mulvaney, who worked in Trump's White House for three years in his first term, says he played golf with, or in the group just behind, the president around 40 times and never beat the man 21 years his elder. "Just soul-crushing" is how he described it.

Golf has been a popular activity for many modern American presidents, but none has had quite the same relationship with the sport as Trump, who is in Scotland this weekend for the opening of a new Trump course near Balmedie in Aberdeenshire.