FILE PHOTO: Golf - European Tour - BMW PGA Championship - Wentworth Club, Virginia Water, Britain - May 23, 2018 CEO of the PGA European Tour Keith Pelley during the Pro-AM Action Images via Reuters/Paul Childs
(Reuters) - European Tour Commissioner Keith Pelley says the tour will play again in Saudi Arabia in 2020 and is "perplexed" at the criticism received for staging a tournament there for the first time in January.
Following the murder of American-based Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi Embassy in Turkey in October, and the country's human rights record in general, some thought it inappropriate the European Tour staged a new tournament in the Middle East nation four months later.
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