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Which is why this weekend’s shocking act of vandalism that took out six of the city’s mature trees felt all the more disheartening.

“I’ve been disheartened having been involved with both of them,” he said.

McIlroy refused to get carried away with the highs of that round, or too disheartened by a stickier patch around the turn.

And he’d grown increasingly burdened by the precariousness of his situation, inching ever closer to a James Outman-esque trajectory of regressing from a productive rookie season to a disheartening sophomore campaign.

In the second interview, which was 24 hours after the ruling, they seemed disheartened and unsettled, less sure of what was to come.