Defending champion Chris Wood and other players looked ahead on Wednesday to the Lyoness Open, which gets underway at the Diamond Country Club at Atzenbrugg in Austria on Thursday.

SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Wood, England

(on BMW PGA win at the end of last month and also returning as defending champion):

"Yes, it's obviously a great win for me, but I sort of try and put that to the back of my mind now I'm here this week. I won obviously last year here so I've got a lot of good sort of memories and sort of feelings going on so I'm looking forward to getting out on the course and sort of can't wait for Thursday (June 9th) really to start and it's always nice to come back and defend a tournament and yeah I sort of obviously coming off the back of my win at Wentworth I feel I can have another good week here."

SOUNDBITE (English) Bernd Wiesberger, Austria

(on taking a week off):

"Yes, I had a couple of weeks before my week off last week. I would have loved to play obviously in Stockholm (Nordea Masters) because I think it's a great tournament, but you have to kind of pick your battles and I wanted to be kind of fresh for my home event so I had a couple of days off in Vienna and used the time to also play 18 holes here on Tuesday so I had a good look at the course and what it's going to be like, and kind of built that into my practice with my coach last week at home so yeah it was nice half week to kind of relax and get ready for the following weeks now."

SOUNDBITE (English) Joost Luiten, The Netherlands:

"It's good to be back. It's always good to come back to a course where you've won in the past, and it always gives a lot of confidence to come back. And I think I've played three times and I've finished in the top three (in) all of them so I'm really looking forward to play again here."