Is an Open Stance OK?

[timm]

Is it ok to have an open stance with all of my clubs? I have a problem getting my hips rotated on the down swing with a square stance and when I use an open stance I seem to be able to do it easier. Only disadvantage I can see by doing it this way is my alignment with the target is some times off. Other then that is the OK to do?

 

[hue]

Lee Traveno and Brian Watts set up with an open stance. You can play good golf from an open stance.

 

[Erik_K]

I don't Hogan's Five Fundamental in front of me but I think he advocated an open stance too (or maybe it was a just a flared left foot).

 

[Brian Manzella]

Hogan liked one ball position, with the stance open with short irons, squaring up in the middle of the set, and winding up closed in the long irons and woods.

Intersetingly an option in Homer's book.