Snaike:Sorry for the Machievellian outlook, but I'm feeling cynical today.
No problem, I'll take Machiavelli over boilerplate any day. 
However, you are probably giving WGT too much credit for thoughtful, advance planning. My theory is that they intended the August International tournament to be a throwaway tournament to "appease all the whiners on this site" all at once. "Let's kill several birds with one stone," so to say. Do all these foreigners keep whining they can enter almost no tournaments? OK, let's make this tourney unlimited play. Do folks keep whining in the forums that the default clubs' distances are ridiculously low? OK, let's give them a tournament from ladies' tees. Do folks, in general, complain that this game is so much harder to play than Tiger Woods Online? OK, let's eliminate wind.
The consideration that we'll now probably end up with a legion of pseudo-Masters (I, a full-blooded Amateur if there ever was one, am threatened by the same fate, currently stationed at the 67.98 mark & still Pro)... well, that consideration may have slipped under the table.
Another theory for why WGT made the August International tourney so easy is that, by changing playing conditions so drastically, they practically gave us "a whole new golf course" to play with. This may have been intended as compensation to appease those whiners who keep demanding for new stroke play courses to be added to the site, instead of just skill challenges. It looks to me like there may be no new stroke play courses at WGT.com for the remainder of 2009, so playing Bethpage from ladies' tees may be regarded as "a new course" instead. I mean, being able to overshoot the left-side bunker at hole 9 with your drive totally changes the play on that hole, doesn't it? It's similar on the other holes, too.
If this was intended to bring more variety to the play, I'd favour, instead of moving up the tees and eliminating wind, the changing of pin positions between rounds. That would markedly increase the attractiveness of both Kiawah and Bethpage for all players, and we wouldn't need new stroke play courses so badly. (I hear, though, that changing pin locations is difficult to implement from the software point of view.) 
It's only day 5 of the new month and the leaderboard of that August All Ladies tournament is already absurd, with a score of 4 under par not even guaranteeing you a place on the leaderboard among the top 250 players. A strange decision by WGT, that's for sure.