At club he level he played with Glen Rovers and St. Nicholas' and was a member of the Cork senior teams as a dual player.
[2] Born and raised in Blackpool, Cork, Goulding first played as a schoolboy in various juvenile competitions before later lining out as a student at the North Monastery.
[7] Goulding first appeared at adult inter-county level when he was drafted onto the Cork junior football team for the latter stages of the 1953 All-Ireland JFC.
[8] Goulding was drafted onto the Cork senior hurling team for the latter stages of the 1953-54 National League and subsequently scored 1-02 in his championship debut against Waterford in the 1954 Munster SHC semi-final.
Two weeks later, Goulding came on as a substitute when the Cork senior football team were beaten by Galway in the 1956 All-Ireland SFC final.
He served with the Eastern Command and was attached to the Military College in the Curragh Camp before leaving the army in June 1984.