Whoa....I have been struggling big time with this routine, but I believe in it. After about three weeks, I spent may hours in weeks 1 and 3 and no hours in week 2 working tough the routine. I have seen great improvement in my putting.
That said, the goals are waaaay too hard. I am an 18 handicap, but I was on the shelf with an injury for about 9 months and have only recently returned to playing. My few rounds since I have returned to playing are more like a 25-27 handicap.
3 feet: I am now up to making 10 in a row with relative ease. The most I have ever made is 22. I have spent 2+ hours on the 3 ft putts at least 4-5 times. I switched to making 3 sets of 15. Doable, but extremely difficult and time consuming. Finally, I moved to 3 sets of 10. I can do that in about 45 minutes most of the time.
After watching me struggle for 8 hours one day on this routine two of the pros at my club asked what I was doing. I told them about the routine. They both said 25 in a row was unreasonably hard. They both said they did not think they could make 25 in a row.
20 feet: Oddly, I found this easier than the 3 feet putts. Of course, I tried this after working hours on the 3' putts; so the two might be related. In any event, I have very little trouble getting 20 in a row with 1 or 2 attempts.
30 feet: At first, I thought this would be impossible. My first efforts were horribly discouraging. Now, I can pretty quickly get 10 in a row. 19 is my highest.
45 feet: I have only recently tried this distance. But, I am not finding it too difficult to get 10 in a row. My highest so far is 12.
Chipping from 20 feet: Very challenging so far. But I am working a lot on technique, and my accuracy is improving. I can do about 70% (14-20), but I have only been able to do 10 in a row a couple of times.
20-30 yards: I have only tried this twice. The first time was a disaster. So I get a quick little lesson from the pro which was very helpful. But I still have a long way to go. The biggest question I have about this distance is the routine indicates that we are to land our shot on the green and stop it there. From this distance, however, I am still hitting more of a bump and run chip than a pitch. So I am purposefully pitching short of the green to let the ball run and stop on the green. Is this still a a useful approach?
I have not made it past the 20-30 yards distance because to get that far in the routine takes me typically at least 3 hours, and I only have so much time in the day....lol Not to mention how much strain my backs and legs start to feel by then.
The really good news is ..... I have played three rounds since starting the routine and have never 3 putt more than 3 times in any one round. Definite improvement there.