While spring’s cool weather keeps the last of winter’s snow lingering in the high country, it’s a good time to enjoy one of the best of the Lake Tahoe area’s shoulder season activities – golf!

More than a dozen award-winning, world-class golf courses have already opened for the summer season and many are offering great rates on lessons and off-peak play.

And for those folks who’d prefer a little more grit than your average neatly manicured green, there’s always the ultra-economical option of disc golf (Frisbee golf or folf). With courses in Truckee, Tahoe Vista, Zephyr Cove and South Lake Tahoe, disc golfers can play an 18-hole round for either free or for the price of parking (which doesn’t exceed $5 anywhere around the Lake.)

To assist you in perfecting either your golf game or your folf game, tahoe.com’s assistant editor Wendy Lautner did a little field research this week. She talked with the pros at the Resort at Squaw Creek Championship golf course and picked up some tips for teeing off in the wind and improving your short game as well as got the latest scoop on this season’s hottest golf gear.

And at the Truckee River Regional Park’s 18-hole disc golf course, Lautner talked with local folfers about the basics of reading course maps to the art of teeing off.

Check out the videos below to see what the Mountain Mutt was up to this week!