Is this a swing flaw?

[Backspinalot]

Ok, so someone who is a golf instructor at our club told me I am aiming slightely left and sort of swing out which makes me hit a high draw on most of my shots. He is trying to get me to aim more to the right and come in more straight, but then it seems to get rid of my draw and I seem to be pushing it out to the right more often and not hitting it as high. I think I sort of liked before when i threw the club out because I got the ball flight I wanted. Should I just go back to being a little open and pushing out a big high draw? For some reason i am really weird about fades and that because i feel like I lose so much distance if it isn't a high draw because I have to play the back tees in my tournaments.

Thanks

[Long Ball Larry]

I don't follow. A slightly open stance should make an in-to-out, draw-producing swing harder due to the position of your right hip. I would stick with what has worked for you in the past.

[mdl]

A slightly open stance makes it easier for me to hit baby draws too.  With a square stance I can usually only hit a hard hook or low punch with a hard draw (when trying to draw the ball with that stance).

[Long Ball Larry]

A slightly open stance makes it easier for me to hit baby draws too.  With a square stance I can usually only hit a hard hook or low punch with a hard draw (when trying to draw the ball with that stance).

Okay, I stand corrected. I also play a high draw (but with a square stance). I still like what the OP is currently doing compared to the instructor's solution, though.

[Bryan SD2]

If the push draw works for you, embrace it and know that I am secretly jealous of you.....

[deasy55]

I do the same thing. Open stance and hit a high push draw.

[Dr. Strangeclub]

Doesn't Tom Lehman do that?  Raymond Floyd?  For most people, I think it's easier to hit from an open stance than a closed or even square one.  A greatly underestimated way to set up to the ball.  True, most open stance players, eg, Fred Couples, hit a fade, but they don't really close it up when they need to hit a draw, at least that I've noticed.

[Backspinalot]

The local teacher named Kim Thompson said when I take it back my right elbow breaks early and along the side of my hip and he told me I need to work on keeping my hands out and keeping the right elbow more in front of my for the first half of my backswing. When I tried what he was saying the ball was going a lot lower and not as far but it was a little bit straighter. I think the thing I am doing has been working but he did say that is why my misses are high pushes right or big hooks. I want to fix my elbow thing because he sounds like he knows what he is talking about but he teaches kind of the same swing as he has to everyone which makes a short, straight.and low ball flight. I think Rory has an awesome swing and he has a high draw flight. so his kind of swing would be the one I would like to work towards.

Any suggestions? Thanks!