[3] In 1894 he finished runner-up to defending champion Robert Wrenn at the U.S. National Championships in Newport,[4][5] having earlier beaten Fred Hovey and William Larned.

He also won the North of Ireland Championships held at the Cliftonville Cricket and Lawn Tennis Club in Belfast three times in 1889,[7] 1890 and 1893.

In 1896 Goodbody won the singles title at the Kent Championships in Beckenham after defeating Harry S. Barlow in the final.

[9] In April 1897 he won the French Covered Court Championships in Paris after a straight-sets victory in the final against Frank Riseley.

[10] Goodbody died during the First World War as a passenger aboard SS Sussex that was torpedoed by a German submarine in the English Channel on 24 March 1916.