obin Nelson has over 35 years of experience in designing exceptional golf courses all over the world. Originally with the firm of Robert Muir Graves of California, Robin moved to the firm of Golfplan in 1976 and soon became vice-president in charge of Asia. While he was in this position, he designed the Tanah Merah Country Club Garden Course and the Serapong Course at Sentosa in Singapore.

In 1982, Nelson joined forces with Belt-Collins, the well known Hawaii-based land planning, engineering and landscape architecture firm, to head up their golf design company, which has today become the firm of Nelson & Haworth. He headed up all the Belt-Collins projects which spanned 18 years and five continents.

Robin was voted a full member of the American Society of Golf Course Architects in 1987. Boardroom Magazine named him “Golf Course Architect of the Year� in 2000 and he was recently honored by being listed as one of the top ten golf course architects in America in a story by noted golf writer Jeff Williams in Cigar Aficianado Magazine. That same year, he founded the firm of Robin Nelson Golf Course Architect to focus on new course design in the United States and South Pacific, all the while staying active with his partners, Neil Haworth and Brett Mogg, at Nelson & Haworth.