I played golf in ATL yesterday for the first time (and I hope the last) with snow on a golf course. We played 9 holes and packed it in. I'm still cold.
Winter kill, as I understand it, is when you get a couple of warm days, the Bermuda starts to come out of dormancy, and then it is hit again with sub-freezing temps. My guess is that we haven't had enough warm days yet to set up conditions for winter kill. But we still have a month or so to get through.
Bob
Bob,
I think a common winter kill scenario is when ice/snow stay on the ground for an extended period when the ground is already very wet; this can happen long before any warmup has happened. We had about three acres of resodding to after last winter, and all of it was in heavy shade areas where the last snowfall stayed on the ground for a full week. Tees, greens collars, and an entire level of the driving range, plus various spots near the edges of fairways.
It isn't a frequent problem here in GA because our snows just don't stay on the ground that long, and our temps just don't stay cold enough long enough, as you of course know. I think the last time we had a significant problem with winter kill was 5 or 6 years ago; it certainly isn't every year. But it's unpredictable, and the extent isn't clear until well into the growing season; some areas come back on their own, others don't.
We were sodding last year well into June, in part because so many courses needed sod that there were backorder delays.