[4][5] Nisbet represented Australia at the 2012 Eisenhower Trophy together with Cameron Smith and Matt Stieger.

In his rookie season, he was runner-up at the 2012 NSW PGA Championship, three strokes behind Matt Stieger.

In April 2015, he won his first professional title, the PGA of Australia's Morobe Open in Papua New Guinea.

[7] 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.