Possible Clues:

• Something taken before swinging
• Topic in a golf lesson
• Brown before church on Sunday gives opinion
• Laurel goes to church, despite having attitude
• In a position to strike in this, for example
• Posture assumed
• Bearing south, Brown has race half completed
• It's for striking in this for example
• Bearing south-east, can't crash into it
• The position is that there will be strike action