According to our superintendent, and articles I've read, the USGA was encouraging courses in the transition zone to consider bermuda as an all season grass back in the 1960's. Our course Tavistock planted it, and then went the route of zoysia in the 1980's. Archie mentioned Pine Valley (about 10 miles away), and from what I've read they really were the vanguard on turf experimentation back then, and they still have remnants of both those grasses today, as we do.
In our case, we actually gassed the entire golf course for our restoration in 2006, so the bermuda survived that, only reemerging during the hot and dry summer of 2010. It's a ridiculously nasty weed and I've posted before about it. For about three months a year here it's perfectly fine to play off of, but during green-up in the spring and going dormant in the fall it's horrible. It's gotten to be such an issue in a couple of places on our course, a consultant recently recommended giving in and trying to plant a hybrid-type bermuda to try and out-compete it and deal with it.
I've seen it at a number of courses here--some who regrassed as recently as two years ago--and unless something drastic changes, it's sure to be one of the bigger ongoing problems superintendents will have to deal with.