Neon had surgery in October after being diagnosed with a medulloblastoma braintumour, but the judge ruled he should have further surgery after MRI scans showed a tumour nodule where the original operation was performed.
He retired from golf in 2007 after continual back problems, and has needed even greater powers of resolve to withstand extensive chemotherapy and surgery to remove the tumour on the brain, which was diagnosed after he collapsed twice in Madrid.