Nisbet was born in 1990 and grew up on a golf course, Caboolture Golf Club, and started playing golf early.[1] He had success as an amateur and won the Australian Junior Order of Merit in 2006.[2] In 2008, he won the Australian Boys' Amateur and Handa Junior Masters.[3]
Nisbet served an 18-month suspension from November 2009 to May 2011 for an anti-doping rule violation in relation to possession of DHEA.[7][8]
Professional career
Nisbet turned professional in 2012 and joined the PGA Tour of Australasia. In his rookie season, he was runner-up at the 2012 NSW PGA Championship, three strokes behind Matt Stieger. He tied for 3rd at the WA Open Championship in 2014 and 2015. In April 2015, he won his first professional title, the PGA of Australia's Morobe Open in Papua New Guinea.[9]
In 2016, he played on the PGA Tour China, where he won the Clearwater Bay Open in Hong Kong, after he rolled in a 10-foot putt for eagle on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff.[10]
Nisbet first met his wife when they were 12 and 11 years old, playing in a junior golf tournament. They started dating seven years later and got married in 2016.[1]
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