diff --git a/omegaconf/omegaconf.py b/omegaconf/omegaconf.py
index c8c3797b5..d291f36b6 100644
--- a/omegaconf/omegaconf.py
+++ b/omegaconf/omegaconf.py
@@ -746,7 +746,13 @@ def update(
                 assert False
 
     @staticmethod
-    def to_yaml(cfg: Any, *, resolve: bool = False, sort_keys: bool = False) -> str:
+    def to_yaml(
+            cfg: Any,
+            *,
+            resolve: bool = False,
+            sort_keys: bool = False,
+            default_flow_style: Optional[bool] = False
+    ) -> str:
         """
         returns a yaml dump of this config object.
 
@@ -754,13 +760,19 @@ def to_yaml(cfg: Any, *, resolve: bool = False, sort_keys: bool = False) -> str:
         :param resolve: if True, will return a string with the interpolations resolved, otherwise
             interpolations are preserved
         :param sort_keys: If True, will print dict keys in sorted order. default False.
+        :param default_flow_style: Set default_flow_style option for PyYAML's yaml.dump().
+            Choices:
+             - False: Always use block style for collections
+             - True: Always use flow style
+             - None: Use block style for nested collections, otherwise use flow style
+            default False.
         :return: A string containing the yaml representation.
         """
         cfg = _ensure_container(cfg)
         container = OmegaConf.to_container(cfg, resolve=resolve, enum_to_str=True)
         return yaml.dump(  # type: ignore
             container,
-            default_flow_style=False,
+            default_flow_style=default_flow_style,
             allow_unicode=True,
             sort_keys=sort_keys,
             Dumper=get_omega_conf_dumper(),