The White House on Tuesday defended President Trump’s scores of trips to his golf courses during his first year in office — arguing that hitting the links with lawmakers paid big policy dividends.

Trump’s frequent cries of “fore” helped forge “deeper and better relationships with members of Congress,” spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said at the daily press briefing.

Trump has visited his golf properties in Virginia, Florida and New Jersey 91 times since he was sworn in — and played golf during at least 70 of the visits, according to multiple reports.

On the campaign trail, candidate Trump frequently slammed President Barack Obama for playing golf, and said he’d be too busy working for games or vacations.

Sanders would not explain why it was bad for Obama to play the occasional round but a positive for the president to play so much golf.

“We’ve had an extremely successful 2017, and some of that’s due to the relationship building he was able to do there,” she said.

NBC News, which tracks Trump’s whereabouts, said he has so far spent 117 of his 347 days in office at one of his properties, and of those, he’s visited his golf courses 91 times.