[9] In 1940, Glading won the North Island amateur championships,[10] and in October that year he set a course record of 65, 9 under par, at the Hamilton Golf Club.

[1] In November 1945 he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, for outstanding skill and courage while serving in air operations against the Japanese during July and August 1945.

He repeated the win the following year at New Plymouth with a three-shot victory over Alex Murray, carding rounds of 70, 68, 77 and 76.

[14] At the Australian Open at Kingston Heath in 1948, Glading finished tied for eighth with Kel Nagle.

[18] Glading and his family moved to South Africa in the early 1960s after he was offered a job while playing in the Commonwealth Tournament there in 1959.