In ideal conditions the Almansours, dressed in Saudi green and white, shot the winning net score of 56 in the two ball better-ball Texas Scramble format competition that attracted 102 players and 51 two-man teams.
"I felt like I gained a lot of power from wearing the green shirt and white pants. It was a psychological boost for us," said Fahad of their near-flawless display.
Besides the surge of national pride the brother tandem on the Saudi national team both had a lot of game on the day that separated them from the rest of the pack.
The long-hitting pair of teenagers Faisal Salhab,16, and Turki Hussain, 19, kept the Saudi flag flying high when they finished second on 57 highlighting their round with an eagle on the par-5 9 where Turki's drive left Faisal with a 230 yards approach shot that he hit with a 4-iron to the fringe of the green. Turki holed out from the fringe for an eagle three.
Salhab, a 10th grade student at American International School in Riyadh, and Hussain, are also national players.
The results achieved by the four Saudi players were definitely a big boost in the efforts to grow the game of golf in the Kingdom.
The husband and wife team of Graham Walker and Theresa Walker took third place on 58, with Alistair McIlroy and Finlay Graham claiming the fourth position on countback from the Swedish pair of Per Anders Nilsson and Richard Hakansson after the sides tied on 59. G. Simpson and Tom Trimble returned a net 60 to round out the first six winners in the event with a format that uses 9 tee shots for each player and where handicap is 50 percent of the total 3/4 handicap of the two players.
With a combined handicap of 7, Fahad and Abdulrahman played according to the game plan with some bonus to boot.
"I was looking at playing 5-under in each of the nines. We went out and birdied the first three holes to gain momentum and that's it," said 33-year-old Fahad, a father of an eight-month old child and assistant vice president at a local bank in Riyadh.
The winning pair had nines of 30-33 for a gross 63 that contained 10 birdies against one bogey after Fahad had to play out to the fairway, when he pulled his drive to the right under the three, and two-putted on 18.
"Right from the start our intention was to win. And luckily we made it. It was a good way to celebrate our national day," said Fahad who wielded a hot putter all day long although he credited his 16-year-old brother for doing it all for a birdie on No. 17. Abdulrahman smoked his drive 340 yards to the middle of the fairway, dumped an approach shot to 15 feet of the cup and made the putt.
In addition to the eagle Salhab and Hussain had six birdies in a round of 64 (32-32) but they could have scored lower if not for the eight missed birdie attempts that either lipped out or stopped left of the hole.
The EFX Arabia longest drive award went to Filipino ace Richard Gaas in the men's division and Theresa Walker in the ladies division. Ron Towry nabbed the closest to pin award.
The awards ceremony took place after the competition and sumptuous lunch at the clubhouse with Dirab Golf Committee Chairman Nasser Uddin Siddiqui presenting the prizes to the winners along with Almarai's Tom Trimble, head of Strategic Business Unit. Also, Siddiqui acknowledged Almarai's Malcolm Jordan, GM Quality and Product Development; Majed Al Doyhi, events manager; and Talal Al Otaibi, PR manager for facilitating the Almarai Company sponsorship of the tournament.
