ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Among the most heated battles between LIV Golf and the rest of the golf world has centered around the Official World Golf Rankings.

LIV Golf wants world ranking points and the OWGR has been slow to make a decision on whether to include LIV in getting them.

The reason?

Among those on the OWGR board are the leaders of the PGA Tour and DP World Tour as well as all four major championships — the Masters, the R&A (British Open), the USGA (U.S. Open) and the PGA of America, which runs the PGA Championship.

And the leaders of those groups have a common cause of sorts: They’re anti-LIV.

Thus, there appears to be a clear slow-play in progress on the part of the OWGR to rule on giving out points to LIV. And the qualification process for all four of the major championships is highly dependent on players’ world ranking points.

Those, in essence, get them into the major championship fields.

The longer LIV players go without being able to gain world ranking points, the less chance most of them (other than past champions of the events) have to qualify for the majors.

So eventually, attrition will take over, which seems to be what the endgame is on the part of these governing bodies.

On Tuesday, in advance of this week’s PGA Championship at Oak Hill, PGA of America CEO Seth Waugh, who’s on the OWGR board, was asked what it feels like to “hold the future of professional golf’’ in his “hands.’’

“I’m just one board member, and I’ve lived through 9/11 and a financial crisis or two,’’ Waugh said. “No, I think we can handle it.’’

Asked, as a board member, why the OWGR is taking so long to make a ruling, Waugh said, “That’s a total mischaracterization. There has been healthy back and forth. It has not been acrimonious. There’s been collegial back and forth of them making an application as other tours have done. We’ve responded; they’ve responded. The ball, from my understanding, is in their court from our last response at this point.’’

Understandably, this is not a cut-and-dried issue, because of the way LIV Golf is formatted — with 48-player fields, no cuts and playing 54-holes.

But there can be a way of altering the points system where LIV winners get some smaller percentage of points based on the smaller fields, no cuts and fewer holes played.

Waugh insisted, “This is not an us-versus-them’’ situation.

“The OWGR, if you take a step back, the whole point is to create a level playing field, a yardstick by which to measure the game,’’ he went on. “Our job is to measure tours. Not players, but tours and how they perform on those tours to come up with that yardstick. That’s what we’re all attempting to try to do. We’ve been, I think, very responsive to them in terms of their requests, and they’ve been responsive to us. It isn’t some battle.’’

This is the second major championship of the year and the second time LIV players have competed against the rest of the players.

Like at Augusta, there are 18 players from LIV competing this week.

If we learned anything at the Masters, the acrimony between LIV and the other tours is not as much among the players as it is between the leaders of those tours.

“I’ve never had any negative feelings towards any player that went over to LIV,’’ Jon Rahm, the No. 1 ranked player in the world, said Tuesday. “I still play with many of them [in practice rounds]. Some people are friends, and some of the players weren’t friends, obviously, and it’s not my place to judge what they do with their life. I can agree with it or not, but I’m not going to be judgmental in that sense.

“I’m nobody to tell them what to do. That’s why I would never get emotionally invested in something like that. It’s their life. I don’t have a personal issue with them, and there’s no reason for me to make it [that way].’’

That was a common theme at Augusta last month, with players who hadn’t seen each other for months, enjoying the reunion of time together again.

“I am proud of [the] Masters because they returned civility to the game,’’ Waugh said. “That’s how they dealt with it. That’s how we want to deal with it. What we’re about this week is having it be the greatest field in golf. We said that’s what we wanted to do, and that’s what we’ve done. Everybody who’s here this week is our invited guest, and we’re happy to have them and we’re going to treat them all the same.’’